On Mi, 26 Apr 04:38:29 +0200
tu...@posteo.de wrote:
On 04/25 07:38, Floyd Anderson wrote:
On Di, 25 Apr 17:47:22 +0200
tu...@posteo.de wrote:
A few minutes ago I emerged xfce4-terminal and tried the
cat-time-test of yesterday: 29 secondes with xfce-terminal
and 5 seconds with urxvt. Hmmmm...
You have got the reversed results compared with mine...
Yes, my test (and probably my response to you) was too quick. I’m using
‘URxvt*skipScroll: false’ here (cannot recall exactly why), which
defaults to ‘true’ normally. The same time-cat-test with `urxvt -ss` now
finish within a second instead of 25. Just another example that shows
comparing test results might be misleading, especially across multiple
computers.
What the heck slows down the output of the terminals on my
Gentoo and only let urxvt shine?
That was one of my first thought when I was noticing the performance
difference between virtual terminal and terminal emulator(s). I happily
ended up by using rxvt-unicode after a relative short quest due to its
low resource requirements (can additionally decreased by using urxvtd),
extensibility, responsive and so on. And true colour — maybe some day;
but to be honest, 256 colours is more than enough for a terminal, at
least for me — even more as long as applications like Mutt, struggles by
using only a dozen of different colours.
I’m sure the way answering this question will cost quite some time of
comparisons and/or investigations — too much vectors and special cases,
too much ‘too much’ for my taste (for a single feature).
One thing (as you can see by my test result above) is the configuration
itself — one nondescript parameter with a so noticeable impact. Also,
with different font sizes you’ll get different test results.
Other reasons may be hardware acceleration, the font handling/renderer
(anti-aliasing, sub-pixel addressing, hinting, colouring, combining
characters, buffering), graphical features (transparency, background
image, scroll bar).
And the main question that follows those considerations: Which of the
terminal appearance/behaviour is well documented and can be controlled
by the user? This were my next starting point at the quest for a new
emulator nowadays.
PS: I found XVilka before. That's why I asked for some experiences
of other users.... :)
Yes, I thought as much because it is one of the top web search results
by now. I put it in for the case you haven’t recognised it and due to
the terminal overview and its still ongoing discussion.
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Regards,
floyd
